Books-A-Million Announces The Hour of Peril by Daniel Stashower As New Buyer’s Pick

Books-A-Million, Inc. (Nasdaq/NM: BAMM) today announced that The Hour
of Peril by Daniel Stashower, the riveting true story of the
“Baltimore Plot,” a bold conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln
before the Civil War, has been chosen as BAM’s most recent “Buyer’s
Pick” by Mary Gallagher, Senior Vice President of Merchandising.

“Stashower’s work of historical narrative captured me from the very
beginning, and I know readers won’t be able to put it down,” said Mary
Gallagher. “Despite being a work of non-fiction, The Hour of Peril reads
like a suspense thriller.”

In February of 1861, just days before he assumed the presidency, Abraham
Lincoln faced a “clear and fully-matured” threat of assassination as he
traveled by train from Springfield to Washington for his inauguration.
Over a period of thirteen days, the legendary detective Allan Pinkerton
worked fanatically to detect and thwart the plot, assisted by a
captivating young widow named Kate Warne, America’s first female private
eye.

With Lincoln and his advisors refusing to believe that the danger was
real, Pinkerton took a gamble, staking Lincoln’s life and the future of
the nation on a perilous feint that seemed to offer the only chance that
Lincoln would survive to become president. This story was shrouded in
secrecy and, later, mired in controversy.

The story of the “Baltimore Plot” is one of the great untold tales of
the Civil War era, and Stashower has crafted this historical narrative
with the pace and urgency of a real thriller.

Daniel Stashower, author of The Hour of Peril, is also the author
of The Boy Genius, The Mogul and the Edgar Award-winning Teller
of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle. He has also written five
mystery novels. Stashower is a recipient of The Raymond Chandler
Fulbright Fellowship in Detective and Crime Fiction Writing, and spent a
year as a Visiting Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford. Stashower's
articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington
Post, Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic Traveller
and Connoisseur. He has been a freelance journalist since 1986
and currently lives in Washington, D.C.

About Books-A-Million, Inc.

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